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Lecture 5 macromedia flash
The document discusses the interface and tools available in Macromedia Flash 8. It describes the main components of the Flash interface including the menu bar, timeline, layers, stage, views/zooms, panels, and tool bar. The menu bar provides access to features like file, edit, view, insert, modify, text, commands, control, window, and help. The timeline shows frames and their duration. Layers allow independent movies to be created. The stage is where elements are drawn and properties set. Views allow zooming. Panels group commands. The tool bar contains basic tools like selection, lines, shapes, and text, as well advanced tools like pen, lasso, and eyedropper.
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- 2. THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT Flash 8counts with the most handy and intuitive environment or working interface It makes easier to assuming Flash, and faster its management and control
- 4. THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT In theimage you can see the interface, we can see it just opening the Flash program. Flash will remember your preferences and will open the program just as you left it last
- 5. I. MENU BAR Aimedto make easier the access to different program features. It is similar to any other web or graphic designer program, although it has some particularities. Let's see the main Submenus you can access to:
- 6. 1. FILE •It allowscreating, opening and saving archives •also enables to configure the printing pages,
- 7. 2. EDIT •Itis a classic menu that allows you to Cut, Copy, Paste objects or as well images or frames; •It also allows you to customize some of
- 8. 3. VIEW Apart from,typical Zooms, it allows you to move the frames and scenes. It also includes the possibility to create a grid and
- 9. 4. INSERT It permits youto insert objects into the movie, as well as new frames, layers, actions, scenes…
- 10. 5. MODIFY The option Transformpermi ts one to modify the graphics existing in the movie, and the option Draw Bitmap allows to
- 11. 6.TEXT Its contents affect the editionof text. It will be further handled in more details
- 12. 7 & 8.COMMANDS AND CONTROL •Commands: Allows administrating the Commands that we had saved in our animation, to obtain other news from the Macromedia page or execute what we already have. •Control: From here you modify the properties of the movie reproduction Play, Rewind, Test Movie
- 14. 9. WINDOW In additionto the classical options of distributing the windows, this menu includes shortcuts
- 15. 10. HELP From here wecan access to all the help that Macromedia offers to us, from the current manual up to the Action Script, going through
- 16. WHAT IS ITAGAIN?
- 17. II. TIMELINE represents asimple mode of visualization. It consists of two parts: NUMBER FRAMES
- 18. TIMELINE •FRAMES-that are limitedby vertical lines (forming rectangles) •NUMBERS-that allow us to know the assigned number of each frame, its duration and when it will appear in the movie.Therefore, timeline represents the succession of frames in the Time.
- 19. III. LAYER •A Layercould be defined as one independent movie of only one level. That is to say, one layer contains its own Timeline (with endless frames) •The objects that are at one Layer share a frame and
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- 21. IV. WORKING AREA& STAGE
- 22. WORKING AREA The mostimportant part is the Stage, we will draw and fix different elements of our movie. The Stage has very important properties
- 23. V. VIEWS ORZOOMS •Zooms Panel: It is a set of direct accesses to the View's submenus. They are very useful and help to accelerate the work when they are used correctly. •The Zoom Tool is used to approach or move away the object view, allowing to include more or
- 24. VI. PANELS •The Panelsare command sets grouped according their function (for example, all that makes references to the actions, will be in the "Actions" Panel). It's mission is to simplify and facilitate the
- 25. VII. TOOL BAR •TheTools Bar contains all necesary Tools for the drawing. There are two types of Tools: Basic and Advance Tools •Let's see which of them are the most important and how they are used:
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- 27. 1. SELECTION (ARROW) TOOL Selection(arrow) Tool : It is the most used tool among all. Its main use is to select objects, it allows selecting the borders of the objects, the fillings (with only one click),
- 28. 2. LINE TOOL Itallows creating straight lines in a quick way. The lines are created as in any program of drawing. Click and drag to show up a
- 29. 3. TEXT TOOL Itcreates a text in the place where we click. Its properties will be shown in the next theme.
- 30. 4. OVAL TOOL Enablesdrawing circles or ellipses in a fast and simple way.5. RECTANGLE TOOL Its handling is identical to the Oval Tool, they only differ in the objects they
- 31. 6. PENCIL TOOL Itallows drawing lines, after being drawn you will be able to edit its shape as you like. The color applied by this Tool can be modified from
- 32. Its functionality isequivalent to the pencil, but its stroke is much more thicker. It is usually used for fills. We can modify its thickness and stroke shape. 7. BRUSH TOOL
- 33. 8. PAINT BUCKETTOOL It lets you apply fillings to the created objects. 9. ERASER TOOL It works like the Brush Tool. Nevertheless its function is to erase everything what "it
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- 36. 1. LASSO TOOL Itsfunction is complementary to the Arrow Tool, since it can select any object in a free way creates polygons (and moreover straight lines, rectangles...) in a simple w 2. PEN TOOL
- 37. 3. SUBSELECTION TOOL ThisTool complements the Pen Tool, as far as it lets us move or adjust the vertices that make up the objects created by the above mentioned tool.
- 38. 4.INK BOTTLE TOOL Itis used to change quickly the color of a stroke. It is applied to objects with borders, changes the color of the boundary with one click in the Colors Mixer Panel.
- 39. 5. EYEDROPPERS TOOL Itsmission is to "Capture" colors to use them afterwards.